What, no Community Easter Dinner? Not only are we losing generous volunteers but longtime businesses as well. Perhaps the year 2020 will bring hope for a thriving community again. Happy spring is here after a long winter with a lot of ice and snow. A blessed Easter to all.

First and foremost, I would like to thank our local community for the continued support and generosity given to our local Cancer Loan Closet. Without you, we wouldn’t exist. You have helped so many people who have been battling catastrophic illnesses and for that you should be commended. ...

Does being a member of a political party or religious organization take away your need to oppose their actions and beliefs you find immoral or corrupt? If the answer is yes, then you are a part of that corruption or immorality. It seems to me that the country has progressed because ...

Now that Michigan is a right-to-work state, the Mackinac Center, whose influence was instrumental in that succeeding, has a new challenge. The Michigan legislature and Gov. Whitmer will be preparing state budgets this summer — and organized labor, crony capitalists, special interests and ...

EDITOR: Before I launch off on the latest bee in my bonnet, I do want to make remark on what I have just typed. It implies we still have an editor and we still have a newspaper, which of course we do. But how many realize what a treasure that is? Newspapers have shrunk, merged and many just ...

I am more than a little curious — in my travels around the U.P., I notice that economic expansion is exploding in Marquette, also Escanaba and, to a lesser extent, Houghton. Not so with Iron Mountain/Kingsford. Here, we seem to be going backwards. Kmart, Sears, J.C. Penney, Shopko, ...